Rotary gears up for annual cable TV auction

MIDDLEBORO — The Middleboro Rotary Club's annual cable TV auction is just around the corner, and club members have collected a wide variety of items from area businesses and organizations to auction off to the highest bidder. This year, the auction offers a host of leisure activities in addition to a wide variety of gift items, clothing, small appliances and certificates for a host of goods and services.

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Posted Mar. 16, 2014 at 12:01 AM

Posted Mar. 16, 2014 at 12:01 AM

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MIDDLEBORO — The Middleboro Rotary Club's annual cable TV auction is just around the corner, and club members have collected a wide variety of items from area businesses and organizations to auction off to the highest bidder. This year, the auction offers a host of leisure activities in addition to a wide variety of gift items, clothing, small appliances and certificates for a host of goods and services.

The Rotary Club's annual cable TV auction is a two-day event. Local residents will be able to watch the auction live on Comcast's and Verizon's local access channels and bid on a host of items from 4-7 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, and again from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday, March 30.

The "Big Board" this year will feature everything from vacation time shares and a week at a Tuscany villa to YMCA meberships, a Salmon River fishing trip and tickets to sports and entertainment events. Local residents can bid on passes to Plimoth Plantation as well as memberships in the local Middleborough Historcial Museum, the Robbins Museum of Archaeology and the Soule Homestead.

There will be tickets to the Narrows Center for the Arts and a tour of Fenway Park followed by a luncheon, as well as to local productions by Theatre One Productions and Nemasket River Productions.

An auction preview, where residents can see auction items and offer pre-bids, will be held from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 29. The club's annual children's ID program will also be held that day, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m..